Milwaukee school teacher sees need for supplies first-hand

A Milwaukee teacher is one of the people answering the call to help students.

Amy Kern teaches first grade at Lancaster School.

She heard about WISN 12's phone bank with the Salvation Army to raise money for school supplies, reached out and volunteered to work the phones during "WISN 12 News This Morning" on Tuesday.

Kern said she sees first hand the number of kids without basic supplies and how it impacts their education.

"Just how ready you mentally feel. To get in there and get your work done and be excited about learning. And if you don't have those things, and others do, that, you just don't feel as ready to learn that day," Kern said.

Kern's mother teaches at Holy Family School in Whitefish Bay.

That school has actually held school supply drives in the past to help Kern's classroom.

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